Cattle-poke.



J. MOHRHERR.

, CATTLE POKE' APPLICATION FILED YEB. 16, 1912.

Patented Aug. 6, 1912.

simple device ofthis character which, 'while view showing theapplication of the device.

'mum number of line wires, and in fact, only JOHN MOHRHERR, OF FAIRVIEW,ll/IONTANA.

cA'r'rLmPoKE.

Application filed February 16, 1912.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug; 6, 1912.

Serial No. 878,151.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, JOHN MOHRHERR, a citizen of the United States,residing at Fairview, in the county of Dawson and State of Montana, haveinvented a new and useful Cattle-Poke, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention compreh'ends certain new and useful improvements incattle pokes of the type that are designed to be secured directly to thehide of the animal, and the in'-'- vention has for its primary object asimple and efficient construction of device of this character which maybe very easily made out of wire and which may be quickly and readilysecured to the hide of the animal, preferably at the peak of the backjust behind the-shoulders, the device embodying a forwardly facing hookwhich is held properly in position projecting above the animals back,whereby, when the animal attempts to pass underneath a wire fence, theline wire will be caught in the hook'and thereby draw the hideand turnthe animal back, the device, when used, enabling thelinclosure to beeffectually guarded with aminione line wire being necessary, provided itis not higher than the animals back. The invent on also has for itsObJect a effective in preventing the' animal from pass ing underneath awire fence, will not interfere in any wisciwith the animal lyin orfeeding and which will not cause t e ani mals back to become. sore. Andthe inven tion also aims to generally improve devices'ii of this classand to render them more useful and commercially desirable;

With these and other objects in View, as will more fully appear as the;description proceeds, the invention *consistsin certain constructions,arrangements, and combina tions of the parts that .I shall hereinafterfully describe and claim.

For a full understanding of the invention, reference isto be had to thefollowing description and accompanying drawing, in which,

Figure 1 is a perspective-view of my improved animal poke, and, Fig. 2is a similar Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the,following description and designated in the accompanying-drawing by likeMy improved cattle poke is preferably formed of a single piece ofsuitable spring wire, the same being bent to form a counterbalancingbail A which consists of a preferably curved transversely extending rod1 and two longitudinally extending curved rods 2 which are preferablydisposed parallel to each other, as clearly illustrated in the drawing,and which terminate in eyes or coils 3, from whence the ends 4 of thewire converge upwardly slightly rearward and are welded or otherwisejoined together to form a hook 5 the bill of which faces forward. v

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preferably constructed of a. single piece of wire bent to form a shank 6which is returned upon itself at one end to form the penetrating member7 and which is formed and coiled to form a keeper 10 for engagement bythe pointed penetrating meinber'7.

From the foregoing description in connection with the accompanyingdrawing, it will be'understood that in the practical use of the skin orhide at'a predetermined distance gers andthe penetrating member 7. withthe fastening device B v is passed through; the animals hide and intothe keeper IO afte'r *thefastening device has been [passed throughtheeyes 3. It will, of course, be understood Ithat the wire out of whichthe fastening device is formed, is relatively pliahlqwhereby and thenbent back to forin the penetrating member 7. When thedevice is th'i'1ssecured to the hide of the anir nal,, it is obvious that the bailA willrest upon the peak-of the a imals back any determined distance behi dthe shoulders and will counterbalance and thereby hold the forwardlyfacing hook in an erect position, whereby it will catch in a line wireof a fence -if the animal attempts to pass underneath thesame andthereby draw upon the hide and prevent the animal wise from feeding orlying d'ownfas in the case of pokes of the type that are heldinplace byencircling the animalsneck.

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my improvedmattl'e poke, a small portion of back fliflin the shoulder ofthe animal is firmly grasped between the'thumb-andifin it may be firstpassed through' t-he ey'es 3' I use a fastening device B which is also 4with a lateral offset 8at its other end, said 5 offset being returneduponitself, as at-9,-

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from passing throiigh the fence, while the device will not hinder theanimal in any \Vhile the accompanying drawing illustrates what- Ibelieve to be the preferred em hodiment of my invention, it is to beunder stood that the invention isnot limited thereto, but that variouschanges may be made in the constructions and arrangements of partswithout departing from the scope of the invention, as defined in theappended claims.

\Vhat I claim is 1. A device of the character described, comprising afastening device and a poke proper pivotally connected thereto andineluding a hook, and a counterbalancing bail connected thereto. I

'2. A device of the character described, including a fastening deviceand a poke proper embodying a bail, and a hook connected to the bail andangular'ly disposed relative thereto, the poke being provided with eyesbail, consisting of a curved cross rod and I laterally spacedlongitudinal rods, eyes formed at one end of said longitudinal rods, theends of the wire converging upwardly from said eyes and connectedtogether to form a hook having a forwardly facing bill.

JOHN MOHRHERR.

Witnesses:

F. M. SCHAEFER, E. E. CUSHING.

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